We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and … research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a crime reducing impact of education, which can be … interpreted as causal through leveraging research designs (e.g., based on education policy changes) that ensure the direction of …